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Big Data
A Guide to New Generation of Data Tools Big Data Glossary
The book helps to navigate the huge number of new data tools available and it guides to describe the sixty of most recent innovations from NoSQL databases and MapReduce approaches to Machine Learning (ML) and visualization tools. Descriptions are based on the experience with tools in production environment.
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Cognitive Economics
Cognitive Economics
Epistemic research program has been influenced by certain other social sciences, also interested in the social consequences of an actor’s beliefs and reasoning. Social psychology showed how interacting agents may be locked in pathological situations resulting from crossed expectations which are kept through time because they are locally validated. Sociology demonstrated how desirable or undesirable social states can be obtained and selected by self-fulfilling prophecies about a phenomenon of common interest among agents.
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Data Collection and Analysis
Data Collection and Analysis
Data collection by means of observation – as a main research tool, or as a preliminary or supplement to other methods. It distinguishes between ‘structured’ or ‘systematic’ observation, where reductionist measurements are collected by observational means to test hypotheses or explore correlations between variables, and less-structured’ or ‘qualitative’ observation to explore the framework of meaning in as holistic and naturalistic a manner as possible.
